[Hugh Fenton]

Thanks Mark and Anne,

I might look into 5D to RGB is a good suggestion. What’s the software called that achieves that. Is it free. Has anyone else had any experience with that method.

I feel like Mpeg Streamclip is interlacing footage. Because it only has an option for upper or lower field when you convert the 5D footage to Pro Res?

Regards, Hugh

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[Hugh Fenton]

Hi Craig,

when I was exporting from Final Cut as a reference movie and opening that in Compressor. Compressor wouldn’t do anything, my file would be sitting in the batch monitor but wasn’t processing.
Which is strange because I used to use this method and it worked fine.

Now what I’m doing which is working is exporting direct to Compressor.

The next thing that I don’t quite understand is that at the start of this workflow before I began editing in final cut pro, when I used mpeg streamclip to convert the Canon 5D footage to Pro Res it seemed to interlace the footage, because mpeg streamclip has no progressive option it just says upper or lower field. I find this odd because Canon 5D Mark II footage is progressive?

I say this because after I’d finished my edit I needed to deinterlace the whole timeline to get a reasonable result out of compressor.

Any thoughts, Hugh : )

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[Hugh Fenton]

Hi Ann,

could you please send me a link to this preset. I currently use Mpeg Streamclip to convert Canon 5D Mark II footage into pro res and I’m not sure if I’m getting the best results out of it.

Any help is appreciated, Hugh

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[Hugh Fenton]

Hi Craig,

thanks for getting back to me. I am using best settings everywhere but I’ve used Compressor before with these settings and not had an issue before.

I did another export last night using compressor and I think it worked which means maybe the percentage processed meter just isn’t ticking over in compressor but it is still working.

Mind you the result I got out of those specs was not good enough.

I’m doing another export now but mixing a few things up i.e. making it progressive.

I still don’t understand why 1920 by 1080 25p footage (Canon 5D Mark II) seems to get converted by mpeg streamclip into interlaced footage?

Hugh : )

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[Hugh Fenton]

Thanks guys for your help.

I discovered that I had an earlier version of mpeg streamclip which didn’t have the 1920by1080 unscaled option. I’ve just downloaded the latest version.

I’m still a little confused about why mpeg streamclip has only two options in the field dominance section i.e. upper and lower, why is there no option for none, this feels like it’s interlacing?

[Hugh Fenton]

I looked up the plugin. I don’t believe that plugin works for any Mac earlier than 10.6…

I can convert the footage using mpeg streamclip comfortably into pro res.

I suppose I am wanting to know if the 1920 by 1080 (hdtv 1080i) option is interlacing the footage. I don’t understand why it gives me top field and bottom field choices rather than field none aswell. It really feels like my footage is being interlaced through this process of conversion?

Hugh : )

[Hugh Fenton]

Thanks mate for that. I’ll look up that plugin and see if that works. All I want to do is get the footage losslessly into Final Cut Pro. I believe it needs to be converted in pro res?

Regards, Hugh : )

[Hugh Fenton]

Hey Jeremy,

thanks for replying so quickly.

Do you know why I am missing the 1920 by 1080 (unscaled) preset in mpeg streamclip?

Regards, Hugh

[Hugh Fenton]

You’re right about that, I’m going to purchase a monitor soon.

[Hugh Fenton]

Hi Chris,

sounds interesting, what do you mean by dial in the color settings?

Hugh